Racing games are like London buses: you wait ages for one to pull up, and then several appear at once. It’s been a disappointing first year for petrol heads on the PlayStation 4, with only really Need for Speed: Rivals to keep you occupied – but thankfully the outlook looks, er, good over the coming weeks. In addition to DriveClub and The Crew, UK firm Slightly Mad Studios will be hitting the track with its partially crowd funded Project Cars, which is shaping up nicely.
This is a simulation racer through and through, as evidenced by this three lap trip around British track Brands Hatch. Much like the developer’s previous title Need for Speed: Shift, the footage focuses on the title’s helmet cam, meaning that you'll need to manually move your head around in order to get a proper look out of your mirrors and the like. Fortunately, the game will be compatible with Project Morpheus when the virtual reality headset deploys.
One other neat feature is that you’ll be able to pick specific dates, and the title will import weather data, meaning that you’ll be able to play in the exact same conditions as many historic races. We seem to recall that Shenmue had a similar option to that, once again proving that Yu Suzuki’s masterpiece was way ahead of its time. Still, this is all looking rather spiffing, isn’t it? It should make that wait for Gran Turismo 7 a little easier, at least.
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Drive club makes this look absolute pants.
@SimonAdebisi Dat 60 frames-per-second innit. I must admit, I do find it odd the way it rains inside the helmet.
@get2sammyb future weather, concentrated acid rain duh
@SimonAdebisi
Drive club has made me want to start playing racing games again, cant do rehash after rehash of need for speed or drift anymore, not touched a racing game in about 3-4yrs with the exeption of mario kart, i really hope drive club will show up the rest of the bunch and mayb giv them all the kick they need
@SimonAdebisi Lol
Where is the onscreen revcounter?
Also, who in their right mind is waiting for GT7? That series is totally done for.
@Flurpsel Rubbish, GT6 was a fantastic return to form. Considering the PS4's popularity in Europe right now, GT7 will be the biggest thing since sliced bread.
@keyser_soze the crew sounds interesting and looks okay but then drive club is more or less free so I'll stick with that for now. I'd love a game like the crew but where you can also trash your opponents car and run them off into oblivion. Also I'd love the newly rehashed roadroash to be ported to ps4/vita.
@SimonAdebisi
The crew does look good, i like the idea of the long distance driving but il keep an eye on it and see if it will make my buy list, road redemption does look brilliant and if it got ported over i would buy it on day 1, i just cant see it happening tho
@keyser_soze seeing as ps4 is all about the PC ports maybe Sony should poll ps4 PS plus members on what they might be interested in...
Guys don't compare this to driveclub or the crew. I think it looks fabulous, I've been playing it for a while on PC now, since Alpha, looks stunning on PS4 and don't forget it's a FULL SIM (although can be tailored to every player's needs and level of skill) so that means that they not only need to worry about eyecandy but also about physics calculation, grip levels, tire deformation, mechanical failures, airflow, heat dissipation of brakes, damage modeling (it actually HAS a pretty robust damage model compared to GT6 and even Forza) etc... LOTS of stuff going on "under the hood" literally. And just wait until you get the full scope on the multiplayer/career options they're going for. One of my TOP WANT games definitely.
@SimonAdebisi
Xbox1 and ps4 are ment to be easyr to port for so hopefully we will see alot of pc games coming over id really like a heroes of might and magic port. Maybe sammy should do a poll on here just for fun?
@Scollurio
I know what your saying drive club and the crew are more arcade games and this is more of a simulation racer, all i mentioned was that drive club looks like the game to pull me back into the racing genre and then we went on to speak about games that are like drive club as in more arcade like need for speed, drift, and the crew etc.
@get2sammyb GT6 was a return to form. I do worry a little that Polyphony are stuck in their ways and resistive to change. I think they will need to up their game this generation. I hope they can do this!!
This game looks amazing graphic wise. I'm just not into this type of racing game, I'm looking more forward to Driveclub rather than Project Cars.
@Scollurio thanks for the info, if the damage model works properly then I might be interested, it's what I always find lacking even though I'm not really into full sim driving games. I just think that unless you're into driving games then this probably won't be high on most must buy lists
Can't wait of this game. Seen a lot of footage on pc version and it looks slick tbh.
@Lateralus68 I agree. I love the GT games but they definitely need to up there game for PS4. GT6 had horrible sound effects on the cars. The engines sounded like a cross between lawnmowers and hair dryers and the AI wasn't the best its been too. Aside from that I enjoyed it although I enjoyed GT5 more.
I believe Driveclub will look the best out of all these driving games due out and it'll be a great game for core racing fans but Project Cars offers something for the more hardcore racer. So even though there are few car games out around the same time they each offer something different which should help each one sell well enough. Besides, fans of racing games know what they want. I love sims were as my friends love the arcade racers so I'll probably buy all three lol.
@get2sammyb I don't agree, the series has completely failed to innovate since GT4 and you could see a lot of the fans being disappointed by GT5 and 6. Of course GT7 will sell decently because it's 'gran turismo' but I don't think it will compare to the hype of the older GT's.
@Flurpsel GT has it's faults for sure, especially sound. But as far as driving physics go, it's unmatched by any racing game outside of PC simulators. And the characteristics of each individual car are extremely accurate and well represented. And true race fans will take proper driving physics over pretty backgrounds any day! And lets see what PD does with GT7 before we start writing eulogies!
Well,driveclub,the crew and project cars are on the way -but its two mmo's and a sim..i want an arcadey or futuristic racing game for ps4 where - the selling point is that its FAST and FUN (can you guess which would be my preferred franchise?) i think at this point,i'd rather save a little cash for a cheap ps3 to get my racing fix than shell out for any of those three.
@Fenriswolf- It's not the graphics or even the sound. It's mainly the dreadfull AI and the complete lack of interesting races to do. The career mode is terrible and there is no option to create your own fun races or tournaments. In the end, it's just plain boring and it's been like that since forever. If you have played one Gran Turismo, you've played them all. My 2 cents.
@Flurpsel Yea I'd agree the AI can use some improvement as well, but it's mostly as far as collision-detection/avoidance is concerned. But since I need human competition to be challenged anyway, that's never bothered me too much. Complete lack of interesting races to do?? I don't understand what that means.. And you can create your own races in the lobby. The challenge of GT is to run fast laps, with no aids on. If you can run perfect laps around some of the more technical tracks, in a car like the ZR1 race car, or the Zonda R, with no aids on then I'd understand. But can you? If not, try it and then tell me it's not interesting or fun, or that it's boring!
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